Clerk, Cardiology

Salary
The salary range for this position is CAD $27.10 - $27.10 / hour

Job Summary

Join our collegial-spirited team at Burnaby Hospital as we build for the future of health care in Burnaby.

The Burnaby Hospital redevelopment project is a multi‑phase project that will transform the hospital into a modernized medical and surgical health care campus. Phase one is slated to open in spring 2025 and phase two in 2030.

Highlights of the two‑phase redevelopment project include:

- Expanded Emergency Department with additional treatment spaces

- New health care pavilion with 83 beds to support maternity, neonatal intensive care, medicine, and mental health patients

- New operating rooms, procedure rooms and recovery spaces

- New acute care tower with 160 beds

- New medical imaging department

- New integrated BC Cancer Centre

Burnaby Hospital plays an essential role in the community by delivering a variety of health care services. Services and specialties include emergency medicine, intermediate‑level critical care, medical imaging, internal medicine, hospitalist medicine, geriatric medicine, neurology, gastroenterology, palliative, psychiatry, oncology, outpatient clinics, and an extensive surgery program with anesthesia, orthopedics, general surgery, ENT, ophthalmology, obstetrics and gynecology, urology, and plastics specialties.

We are currently hiring for Casual Clerks to join our Cardiology team at Burnaby Hospital located in Burnaby, B.C.

Experience the exceptional benefits of working with us including:

- Comprehensive, 100% Employer‑Paid Benefits

- Generous Vacation Time: Eligible employees can earn up to four weeks of vacation

- Benefit Portability: Seamlessly transfer your benefits from another HEABC employer.

- Immediate Pension Enrollment: Secure your future with a defined municipal pension plan from day one.

- Maternity Top‑Up: Receive an 87% top‑up during maternity leave.

- TransLink Pass Subsidy: Save on commuting costs with a 50% subsidy on TransLink passes.

- Additional employee discounts and perks available.

*Eligibility based on employment status

We invite you to apply today and find out why employees recommend Fraser Health to friends as an exceptional place to work. We are committed to planetary health, we value diversity in the workforce and seek to maintain an environment of Respect, Caring and Trust.

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Detailed Overview

Under the general direction of the Cardiology Supervisor, the Cardiology Clerks schedules outpatient appointments and performs receptionist and clerical duties.

Responsibilities

1. Schedules and books outpatient appointments for assigned area(s) utilizing computerized systems by receiving appointment requests, making follow‑up appointments and adjusting arrangements in accordance with patient and facility requirements.

2. Performs receptionist duties such as answering the telephone, taking and relaying messages and greeting visitors to the department.

3. Contacts physicians and patients to advise when appointments have been arranged and other related changes; transmits test results to physicians' offices, other hospitals and nursing units as appropriate, according to established procedures.

4. Completes patient registration documentation; updates test orders, distributes patient reports to physician boxes, performs filing, photocopying and typing duties as assigned.

5. As required, maintains payroll sheets for all staff; inputs hours into the payroll system; produces payroll sheets for review by the supervisor.

6. Maintains inventory of office supplies and orders as required.

7. Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

Grade 12, plus two (2) years recently related experience, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Skills and Abilities

- Ability to keyboard at 45 wpm

- Knowledge of medical terminology

- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing

- Ability to deal with others effectively

- Physical ability to perform the duties of the position

- Ability to organize work

- Ability to operate related equipment

About Fraser Health

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region. People – those we care for and those who care for them – are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community‑based services are delivered by a team of 50,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the workforce. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

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